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The unique subculture of Cuban punk
A young mohawked man with a leather vest featuring a red anarchy symbol styles another young man's hair into a mohawk

Mohawks, tattoos, and piercings are all familiar aspects of the punk aesthetic, setting "los frikis" apart from mainstream society. Image credit: Samuel Reina Calvo, an audiovisual technician and photographer that accompanied Torre Perez during field work.

The unique subculture of Cuban punk

Often idealized through images of painstakingly restored Chryslers and romantic, backroom rumbas, Cuba has untold subcultures that one graduate student, Carmen Torre Pérez, is analyzing through a social history of Cuban punk.

Kristina García

Understanding the Americas through material texts
Professor standing with hands on her hips in the library with a chandelier in the background

Glenda Goodman, assistant professor of music at Penn, collaborated with a friend at Princeton to organize the American Contact project on material texts. 

Understanding the Americas through material texts

Penn and Princeton partner to create a now-virtual symposium to explore 38 objects, including books, journals, maps, musical scores, visual art, wampum, textiles, stone tablets, and various kinds of handwork. 

Louisa Shepard

#GLASSFEST brings Philip Glass scores to Penn
Philip Glass at piano with headphones Composer Philip Glass works on the score for “The White Lama: The Improbable Legacy of Theos Bernard.” (Image: Bob Finkelstein)

#GLASSFEST brings Philip Glass scores to Penn

#GLASSFEST, which runs for three weeks at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, celebrates the legacy of composer Philip Glass.
The healing power of music
david falcone playing guitar with balloons in the background Monica Trent, left, a patient at HUP, listens as guitarist David Falcone plays the chords of a familiar rock song.

The healing power of music

WXPN celebrates 15 years of its Musicians On Call volunteer program, which has brought music to more than 100,000 patients in Philadelphia hospitals.
Five events to watch for February
The Crossing choir gathered with composer in center Philadelphia choir The Crossing. (Image: Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)

Five events to watch for February

Happenings on campus and beyond to look for this February, ranging from “Galentine's Day” to the beginning of “#Glassfest.”
‘Fight On, Pennsylvania’ celebrates a century
Two pages of sheet music for the song Fight On Pennsylvania.

One hundred years ago two Penn freshmen, David Zoob and Ben McGiveran, wrote the music and lyrics to “Fight On, Pennsylvania,” which became the University’s official fight song for athletic contests. (Image: Penn Archives, from "Songs of the University of Pennsylvania.")

‘Fight On, Pennsylvania’ celebrates a century

One hundred years ago two Penn freshmen got together in a Quad dorm room and wrote the music and lyrics to a song they named “Fight On, Pennsylvania.” The University’s official fight song became a tradition at football games, and today is played thousands of times a year.

Louisa Shepard

Five events to watch for in November
Students examine Queen Puabi's Haddress through glass case

Penn students examine Queen Puabi’s Headdress through a glass case at the 2018 Penn Museum Student Gala. (Image: Penn Museum)

Five events to watch for in November

On the calendar for November around campus: an art party at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Penn Museum's annual Student Gala, and much more.
Three-concert festival celebrates composer and Penn professor emeritus George Crumb
George Crumb sitting next to a piano with a hand-notated musical score in front of him.

George Crumb was a music professor at Penn from 1965 to 1997. (Photo Sarah Shatz)

Three-concert festival celebrates composer and Penn professor emeritus George Crumb

A three-concert festival will celebrate decades of music by Penn professor emeritus George Crumb, a Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Oct. 10-12 at the Annenberg Center. 

Louisa Shepard

Fall into the arts
Metal sculptures with lettering

“Talking Continents” by Jaume Plensa. (Photo: ©Jaume Plensa, courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co)

Fall into the arts

An active time of year for the arts community, the University’s fall arts and culture offerings range from a sculpture exhibit from Jaume Plensa, at Arthur Ross Gallery, to a viewing garden along the Rail Park.
Woodstock at 50
Three people sitting on high stools on a stage surrounded by windows, two playing guitars and one speaking or singing into a microphone.

Author Anthony DeCurtis (center) teaches writing at Penn and holds conversations with and about musicians at the Kelly Writers House. 

Woodstock at 50

During three days of Woodstock in August of 1969, Anthony DeCurtis of the School of Arts and Sciences was 18, growing up in New York City and obsessed with the music that would form the foundation of his writing and teaching.

Louisa Shepard